AI EMAIL + MEETINGS FOR OUTLOOK

Save 4 hours per week.

The average worker receives nearly 120 emails a day and spends almost 12 hours a week on email. vernac hands those hours back: replies staged in your voice on every thread that needs you, and nothing ever sent without you.

117/day · Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025  //  11.7 hrs/wk · McKinsey Global Institute

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// no credit card · connects in ninety seconds · nothing wedges into Outlook · the whole permission list

ver·nac·u·lar (n.) — the language a person actually speaks.

WHY THE HOURS GO

The inbox is not a task list. It behaves like one.

117

emails a day for the average worker — most of them skimmed in under 60 seconds.

Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025 →
2 min

between interruptions: a meeting, an email, a notification, all workday.

Microsoft 365 telemetry, 2025 →
under 5%

of a hundred-email day gets a reply. The busier the inbox, the smaller the share that gets answered at all.

Kooti et al., WWW 2015 — 2M users, 16B emails →

That last one is the whole problem. Nobody answers a hundred-email day by working faster — they answer a smaller share of it, and the rest quietly becomes something you owe someone. vernac closes that gap by having the reply already written when you get there.

HOW IT WORKS

Open your inbox. The replies are waiting.

Every message that needs an answer already has a draft sitting under it, written the way you'd write it — to that specific person. Email runs server side on your mailbox, so drafts appear everywhere Outlook does with no add-in wedged into your client. Edit it, send it, and vernac gets sharper overnight.

Connect

Sign in with your own Microsoft account. vernac links to Microsoft 365 server-side — no add-in, no toolbar, no new app to live in. Ninety seconds, no IT ticket.

Draft

Replies appear in your voice, per recipient — your CFO gets a different register than your vendor. Follow-ups and chasers included.

Learn

Every edit you make becomes a correction pair. Nightly, vernac distils them into style rules and rewrites its own instructions.

Outlook sorts categories alphabetically, so the numbers are the sort order: what needs you stays at the top. Tags move on their own — a thread you answered drops to Complete, a promise you made becomes You Owe until you deliver it, and a question you asked becomes Waiting On until they answer.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT

Built to get better. Not just to get by.

Four things nothing else in your inbox can say.

A separate voice for every person you write to

Not one house style with a tone slider on it. The way you write to your lender is not the way you write to a buyer's agent, and every other drafting tool flattens the two together. We hold a voice per recipient, and each one keeps moving: your sent mail joins the corpus the moment it leaves, and your edits compile overnight into explicit rules for that person.

Nothing joins your meetings

No "AI notetaker has joined" tile, no robot in the participant list, no explaining it to a client. Nothing to install either: your meetings are already being transcribed by Zoom, Granola or Google Meet, and we read that. What we add is the part none of them do — the follow-up, drafted per attendee, in the voice we learned for each of them.

Nothing here trains a model

Not a promise — an absence. There is no training step in this product: no fine-tune, no shared weights, no central corpus that grows as customers join. Your voice is your own sent mail, retrieved, plus a few rules compiled from your own edits. Every lookup is scoped to your account, so there is no model that could have absorbed your writing, and nothing of yours can surface in a stranger's draft. The thing that makes it good for you makes it good for nobody else.

It cannot send as you

Not "won't" — can't. The send permission was never requested, so the capability does not exist in the token your mailbox issues. There is no setting to flip and no bug that could change it. You are structurally the last step on every email that leaves your account, and anyone, your IT team included, can check that on the Microsoft consent screen.

  • Tags that keep upTo Respond, You Owe, Waiting On, Complete — retagged as the situation changes, not as you file.
  • It reads the attachmentsPDFs, Word files and spreadsheets are indexed alongside your writing, so an answer can come from inside a contract.
  • A brief, twice a dayWhat you owe, what you're waiting on, what happened in your meetings. Reply to it in plain language to change things.
  • Ask it anythingOne question box over your mail, meetings, commitments, calendar and the documents attached to them.

THE DIFFERENCE, IN ONE THREAD

The same email, answered three ways.

Jordan asks to walk the penthouse again on Thursday. Here is what a general-purpose AI writes, what vernac staged in your Drafts, and what you actually sent — which is the only one of the three that ever mattered.

A general-purpose AI

Hi Jordan!

Thank you so much for reaching out. I would be more than happy to accommodate another walkthrough on Thursday, and I'd be delighted to meet your partner as well.

Please don't hesitate to let me know what time works best for you!

Best regards

Fluent, courteous, and unmistakably not you. Every recipient gets the same person.

vernac, staged in your Drafts

Thursday works — I can do 10 or 2:30. Happy to have your partner join; I'll have the updated timeline printed.

Which slot is better?

Drawn from how you have actually written to Jordan, plus the rules your past edits compiled: no greeting, no pleasantries, end on a direct question.

What you sent

Thursday works — I can do 10 or 2:30. Happy to have your partner join; I'll have the appraisal comps printed.

Which slot is better?

Two words changed. That edit is the whole training signal — and it is the last time you will fix that one.

THE LEARNING LOOP

It drafts. You fix. The fix sticks.

Two mechanisms, on different clocks. Retrieval is instant: the email you sent five minutes ago is already shaping the next draft to that person. Compilation is nightly: your edits get boiled down to explicit rules that go into the prompt and stay there.

What it wrote — and what you changed
Hi Jordan! Thanks so much for reaching out! Thursday works, I can do 10 or 2:30. Please don't hesitate to let me know Which slot is better?
ExtractedNo exclamation points with Jordan · cut the pleasantries · end on a direct question
Your edits per drafttrending down

Your edits per draft, trending down. When a draft goes out untouched, the marker turns volt and no rule gets written, because there was nothing to learn.

MEETINGS

Your meetings, already written up. Nothing joined the call.

No "AI notetaker has joined" tile, and nothing to install. Your calls are already being transcribed — Zoom AI Companion, Granola, Google Meet — and vernac reads what they produced, matches it to your calendar, and turns it into clean notes and action items. Nothing joins the meeting because nothing needs to.

Then it does the part none of those tools do, and drafts the follow-up to the attendees, in the voice it already learned for each of them. Only the transcript is kept, encrypted, under the same rules as your mail. The follow-up arrives as a draft, so you still press send.

// This one has a real edge: we can only read a meeting your own tools transcribed. If a call was never transcribed, there is nothing for vernac to write up.

Matched to your calendar Transcribed, no bot Ask the transcript anything Notes & action items Follow-ups drafted per attendee
Read from Zoom · nothing joined the call
Walkthrough — Penthouse 12B
Thu 10:00–10:45 · Jordan Meyer, you
Jordan — …if the appraisal lands where we think, we'd want to open escrow Monday.
You — I'll confirm with Kai today and send the timeline tonight.
You → what did I commit to?
vernac → Confirm escrow timing with Kai today, and send Jordan the updated timeline tonight. Jordan expects the appraisal Friday.
Notes
  • Appraisal expected Friday; escrow target Monday
  • You owe: confirm with Kai, send timeline tonight
  • Partner approved finishes; no change orders
FOLLOW-UP · FOR JORDAN Jordan — great walkthrough. Confirming with Kai on escrow now; timeline in your inbox tonight. Talk Monday.

ASK IT ANYTHING · THE TWICE-DAILY BRIEF

Everything it read, available to ask.

Your mail, your meeting transcripts, the promises you've made, your calendar and the documents attached to all of it sit behind one question box. And twice a day the important parts come to you, in an email you can simply reply to when you want something changed.

Ask vernac
What did I promise Jordan?Two open: confirm escrow timing with Kai (said Tuesday), send the updated timeline (said tonight, still outstanding).
Who still owes me something?Kai — the appraisal window, asked 6 days ago. Violet — the signed addendum, asked Monday.
What's the escrow date in the 12B contract?From 12B-purchase-agreement.pdf, §4.2: escrow opens within 3 business days of appraisal delivery.
Set up 45 minutes with Mike, Andrew and Violet next week.Three times everyone can make; the ask is in your Drafts. I'll read the replies and come back when a time lands.
Your brief · 7:00 and 16:00
You oweJordan the updated timeline — promised tonight
Waiting onKai, the appraisal window — 6 days, chaser drafted
MeetingsPenthouse 12B walkthrough — notes and a follow-up draft ready
Else14 messages that needed nothing, one line each
Reply to that email in plain language and it becomes a setting: brief me at 6am too tag everything from acme.com as Vendors stop drafting replies for that newsletter follow up after 7 days, not 3

TRUST & SECURITY

It can't send as you. Not "won't." Can't.

Your mailbox never grants a send permission, so there is no toggle to flip and no bug to fear: you are structurally the last step on every email. Below is the entire consent screen — generated from the same list the app actually requests, so it cannot drift from what Microsoft shows you. Anyone, your IT team included, can check it against the real thing.

Microsoft Graph scopeWhat it is for
User.ReadYour name and address, so drafts sign off as you
Mail.ReadWriteRead your mail, tag it, and stage drafts
MailboxSettings.ReadWriteCreate the category set in your mailbox
Calendars.ReadWriteYour own calendar: availability, and the hold you confirm
Calendars.Read.SharedFree/busy only for people you schedule with — never their event details
openid · profile · email · offline_accessSign-in, and staying signed in
Mail.SendNever requested
  • We don't keep the mail you receive. Inbound bodies are classified in memory and dropped — only metadata and a label are stored
  • Encrypted in transit, and at rest with AES-256-GCM: your tokens, your sent-mail corpus, meeting transcripts and every correction pair
  • Your writing is yours. It is scoped to your account, never used to answer for anyone else, and never used to train foundation models
  • We never record your meetings. vernac reads the transcript your own tools already produced — there is no audio for us to hold, because none of it passes through us
  • To classify and draft, your email content is processed by our AI provider. Microsoft, that provider, and our hosting provider are the whole sub-processor list
  • Revoke vernac's access at any time from your Microsoft account — the connection dies with it. Ask us to delete and we remove what we created
Is your writing used to train a model?No — nothing here trains one
Can another customer's mail shape your drafts?No — scoped to your account
Does your content leave your tenant?Yes — to our AI provider, to draft
Bringing this to work? The security page has the data-flow map, the sub-processor list, retention, and the full scope manifest — written to be forwarded to IT. Most approvals take one email.

BEFORE YOU CONNECT ANYTHING

The questions people actually ask.

Will the first drafts really sound like me?

The first few days need real editing — expect that, and expect it to drop off noticeably in week two. Two things are happening at once: retrieval is instant, so an email you sent five minutes ago already shapes the next draft to that person, and compilation is nightly, so your edits become explicit rules. The dashboard tracks your edits per draft, which means you can watch it improve, or tell us it isn't.

What happens when a draft is wrong?

You edit it, or you delete it and write your own. Both are useful: an edited draft that you send becomes a correction pair we learn the lesson from, and a draft you deleted outright is treated as noise rather than a lesson. Nothing is ever sent for you, so a bad draft costs you the seconds it takes to notice.

Do I need IT approval, or an admin?

No. You sign in with your own Microsoft account and grant the permissions yourself — about ninety seconds, no add-in deployed into Outlook, nothing wedged into your client. If your organisation restricts user consent, your admin will need to allow it, and the security page is written to be forwarded to them for exactly that conversation.

I already use rules and folders. Does this fight them?

No. We add Outlook categories, which sit alongside whatever you already do — we do not move or delete mail unless you explicitly turn on filing. The numbering exists because Outlook sorts categories alphabetically, so the tags that need you sort to the top of the list on their own.

What if I stop using it?

Revoke access from your Microsoft account and it stops immediately — the token dies with the grant. Ask us to delete and we remove your account and everything derived from it. Your mail was never ours; what we hold is your sent writing, your edits, and the tags, and those go with the account.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes, because it isn't an app. Drafts are staged in your mailbox, so they appear in Outlook on your laptop, your phone and the web, in the Drafts folder, where you'd expect them. There is nothing to install anywhere — not on your phone, not on your laptop, and nothing in the meeting either.

Gmail?

In private testing, on the same posture as Outlook: read and compose, never send. It needs Google's verification review before it can open properly, so it's a short list for now — ask and we'll add you to it.

FOR TEAMS — EVENTUALLY

It spreads the way good tools do: someone notices.

A colleague asks how you're answering everything by 9:30. You send them the link. When a few of you are on it, upgrade to a team — your voices stay individual, but the company gains an owned, exportable asset: the accumulated corrections that encode how your firm writes. No procurement meeting required to start. One click required to grow.

Bringing colleagues on? Tell us

SFYou connected your mailboxwk 1
BRB. Reyes asked what changedwk 3
JPJ. Park joined from your invitewk 4
DRD. Ruiz upgraded you all to Teamwk 7
Org voice asset — now exportablewk 7

PRICING

Free while it earns its keep.

Early access
$0

Everything, unmetered, for as long as early access lasts. No card.

  • Unlimited drafts, follow-up nudges and chasers
  • Per-recipient voice, recompiled nightly from your edits
  • Meetings: notes, action items and drafted follow-ups
  • Ask vernac, and the twice-daily brief
  • Your general voice summary and account analytics
Connect your mailbox

And afterwards?

We would rather tell you now than surprise you later. Nothing is metered today and nothing about your account is counting down. When early access ends, everyone on it hears from us first, and the shape we are heading for is this:

FreeTriage, tags and the brief. A monthly allowance of drafts.
ProAround $30 a month: unlimited drafting and meetings.
TeamPer seat, with the exportable org voice asset and an admin console.

If you are on early access when that happens, you will get a long runway and a fair offer. That is a promise we can keep, so it is the only one we are making.

SF

I built vernac because my own inbox was the problem. Everything on this page runs on my mailbox every day before it runs on anyone else's — the tags, the drafts, the brief at 7am, the meeting write-ups. That is also why it can't send: I wasn't willing to give a machine that permission over my own mail, so I never asked Microsoft for it.

If something here doesn't sound like you, that's the bug I most want to hear about. Reply to any brief, or write to me directly.

Shane Farkas · shane@redeavorgroup.com

NOT ON OUTLOOK?

Gmail is in private testing.

Same posture exactly: read and compose, never send. It needs Google's verification review before it can open properly, so it is a short list until then — leave an address and you'll hear the day it opens.

// one email, when it opens. Nothing else, and never to anyone else.